CIOs share action plan for 2016

2016 is upon us. With new beginnings in order, it’s time to stiffen the sinews and chalk out your future course of action. In sync with the spirit of the season, ETCIO.COM asked IT leaders what have they have set out to do in 2016. Here’s what they shared with us

At Maruti Suzuki, we have laid out an ambitious growth plan. We want to manufacture 2 million annually by 2020. To fructify the ‘Maruti 2.0’ vision, we have to re-look our entire range of business processes and systems.

In 2016, my action plan is to facilitate this turbocharged business growth by revolutionizing technology, transforming our transaction system, social & customer engagement, scaling up R&D and overhauling our scale of production using IT. Gopal Rangaraj, Head-IT, Alembic Pharmaceuticals

In 2016, Alembic IT team is gearing up to bring in a strong business IT alignment, and will aim at driving technology initiatives that will enable the growth imperatives of the organization. The focus will be automation of core quality and supply chain processes, and on creating an robust infrastructure that will support the present and future requirements over next three to five years’ time horizon. This would include improvement in core infrastructure, bringing in the next level of Information Security readiness, redesigning of IT processes and responsive end user service capabilities.

With the increased automation and digitization, we expect a higher level of usage, and therefore we will need to focus on ensuring our systems have a high availability and our support desks are geared up to cater to higher levels of end user support. This will be important to ensure, higher levels of technology adoption, usage and business process enablement through automation.

We are part of an industry that delves in deep sciences & research and therefore technology initiatives will need to address the “domain depth” and “business breadth”. We plan to improve our infrastructure to enable business users to have multi client access. The focus will also be automation of supply chain, quality and on increasing the mobility tools deployment to support business needs in different areas.

In 2016, SKS Microfinance is planning to go cashless. I will be piloting cashless in four branches. We will also enable our members to use mobile wallets. Our organization will also set up of retail distribution points for them. We will move from big data to predictive analytics for capturing the route optimization for field forces, on-boarding of customer in two different geographies and analysing asset performance across different geographies.

Sharat M. Airani, Director-IT & CSO, Intellinet Datasys

In 2016, we will focus on Internet of Everything for remote data management. The other areas of attention will be information security, risk management and governance. We will also explore 3D printing this year.